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• Michelle, We Are on to Your Tricks

  Posted Monday, June 16, 2008 12:58 PM By Melinda Henneberger
  
  Political consultants are always yammering about what a good idea it is to get the most damaging information out in the open ASAP, and on the candidate's own terms. Which is why I suspect Michelle Obama of cannily revealing that secret terrorist handshake Read More...
  Filed under: Barack Obama, '08 election, Michelle Obama, sexism, racism

• The Spiteful Vote

  Posted Thursday, June 12, 2008 12:19 PM By Emily Bazelon
  
  On Convictions, a thoughtful post from Rich Ford, in response to Kim and Melinda . Rich is the author of The Race Card ( much more here ). In thinking about whether Clinton supporters who say they'll back McCain are motivated by racism, he writes: Of Read More...
  Filed under: Barack Obama, John McCain, Hillary Clinton, '08 election, racism

• Twister

  Posted Wednesday, June 11, 2008 5:16 PM By Kim McLarin
  
  Melinda, I'm sorry your friend's son got tagged as a racist for supporting Hillary. But please: Let's not get it twisted. My kids' school is almost a 50-50 split between black students (African-American, Haitians, Jamaicans, etc.) and white, with a smattering Read More...
  Filed under: Barack Obama, women, '08 election, racism

• It's OK To Flirt. Really.

  Posted Wednesday, June 11, 2008 1:01 PM By Melinda Henneberger
  
  But, back to living women who are entertaining the thought of McCain-ing. ...You know how during the primaries, we kept writing that supporting Obama over Hillary didn't make us woman-haters or even bad feminists? Belatedly, with the help of my McCain-flirting Read More...
  Filed under: Barack Obama, feminism, John McCain, Hillary Clinton, Democrats, '08 election, racism

• Waiting for the Singing To Begin

  Posted Tuesday, June 03, 2008 10:14 AM By Kim McLarin
  
  So here we all sit, waiting for the lady in the pantsuit to go ahead and sing. It's going to be hard for anyone who cares about equality and multiculturalism and common ground and all that jazz to feel joy at the end of this slugfest, regardless of where Read More...
  Filed under: sexism, racism, women, feminism, Hillary Clinton, '08 election, Obama

• The Whole Race Deck

  Posted Thursday, May 15, 2008 3:44 PM By Bonnie Goldstein
  
  Welcome, Kim, and I’m glad you brought up Alice Walker's “womanist” position. Her Root essay last March, “Lest We Forget: An Open Letter to My Sisters Who Are Brave,” endorsing Barack Obama stayed with me a long time. Not just because I found Walker’s Read More...
  Filed under: feminism, Hillary Clinton, race card, racism, Alice Walker

• The Dangerous Precedent of Eliot Spitzer

  Posted Friday, March 21, 2008 1:50 PM By Judith Shulevitz
  
  I was glad to see the New York Times raise questions about the aggressiveness and anomalous nature of the Spitzer investigation and prosecution, but I was very taken aback by the answers, especially those given by the federal prosecutors. They sounded Read More...
  Filed under: Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Eliot Spitzer, sexism, racism, prosectors

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